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This experience has given us great insight as to what it takes to become a leader and to recognize the leadership potential and skills within all of us. I definitely came back inspired and ready to learn more about librarianship and leadership! <br> Kimberly Brown-Harden 7/11/08

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'''Final Report'''<br>

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Team members from Group DD interviewed a diverse group of Librarians from the United States as well as overseas. Each interviewee offered a prescribed definition of leadership and provided anecdotal advice to new librarians on the challenges of librarianship and leadership. We interviewed Directors of large library systems to front-line staff at local public or academic libraries. Although this project was geared toward new librarians, seasoned librarians could also gain inspiration and insight from some of the stories and advice their colleagues shared.

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A most interesting aspect of this project was to hear that librarians from all over the country could share similar concerns about the current library climate. Our group hopes that this website will remain in perpetuity and could be added as needed to reflect current issues and concerns of all librarians. Our website can be found here: <a href = "http://www.emergingleaders.ala.org/leadershiplessons/"> <br>

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Conduct and publish interviews of current or former ALA leaders with emphasis on leadership stories and lessons learned.

Sponsor: EL

Description
What can the millenials learn from the traditionalists and the boomers? This group will choose library leaders (in official leadership positions as well as innovators on the front-lines) to be interviewed, conduct interviews, and publish the lessons and stories of leaders in ALA and the field. The initial expected outcome was that we would publish these leadership lessons on the EL Leadership Wiki. The team, in the hopes of making this content more visible and widely accessible, plan to publish the results of our interviews to a website we will create.

Timeline
1/11: Meet at Midwinter to plan project.

1/21: Post at least 5 potential interviewees to Team Wiki.

1/25: Assign interviewees to team members and begin scheduling interviews.

3/30: Interviews completed. Begin general discussion of website and poster.

4/15: End general discussion. Split into two teams to work on architecture of website (upload content from Team Wiki to official website!) and planning for poster session.

6/10: Project completed. Troubleshoot and finetune.

6/27: Unveil website and present at poster sessions at Annual.

Group Members and Team Roles
All team members will conduct interviews and post their interviews to the Team Wiki, a (backend) virtual workspace where we can communicate and collect content. The team will then split up and half will work on publishing content to a website created for this project, and the other half will work on the presentation and poster session.

Jenny Engstrom: Update this page with progress each month, create seperate wiki workspace for project mgmt, and work on website

Michael Spelman: Lead poster session project

Carrie Wuensch-Harden: Monitor work of team throughout project, work on poster session

This experience has given us great insight as to what it takes to become a leader and to recognize the leadership potential and skills within all of us. I definitely came back inspired and ready to learn more about librarianship and leadership! Kimberly Brown-Harden 7/11/08

Final Report
Team members from Group DD interviewed a diverse group of Librarians from the United States as well as overseas. Each interviewee offered a prescribed definition of leadership and provided anecdotal advice to new librarians on the challenges of librarianship and leadership. We interviewed Directors of large library systems to front-line staff at local public or academic libraries. Although this project was geared toward new librarians, seasoned librarians could also gain inspiration and insight from some of the stories and advice their colleagues shared.

A most interesting aspect of this project was to hear that librarians from all over the country could share similar concerns about the current library climate. Our group hopes that this website will remain in perpetuity and could be added as needed to reflect current issues and concerns of all librarians. Our website can be found here: <a href = "http://www.emergingleaders.ala.org/leadershiplessons/"> Mentor
Connie Paul, Executive Director, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative